The Delta independent., 1887-06-28
TELEGRAPH BREVTTIES.

IN CAeNenne-
Leavenworth, Kansas, had $780,
900 fire few days age.
Over 400 Chinese laundrymen are on
a strike in New York City.
The Army of the Potomac is holding
its annual reunion at Saratoga.
1t is rumored that Secretary of
War Endicott will soon leave the Cabinet.
Editor O'Brien was the recipient of
rousing ovation when he arrived in Dub
lin.
The National Republican, of Wash
ington, favors Leland Stanford for Presi-
dent.
A report that Jay Gould was dead
created almost panic on Wall street last
week.
The death of ex-President Hopkins,
of Williams College, is reported from North
Adams, Massachusetts.
A cable is to be laid across the Pa
ciic from ysncouver's Island to Australia,
touching at Hawaii and FIJI.
John A. Beall, twelve years of age,
killed his mother near Esston, Ohio, and
the people talk of Iynehing him.
1900 feet of snowsheds on the
line OF the Union Pacific, in Granite Can
on, were burned a few days ago.
TIE Mormons have called a constitu-
tlonsl convention to meet June so. They
intend To demand admission as state.
The curriculum of Princeton College
has been greatly enlarged, and 1t is now a
in fact though not In name.
The mayor of Cork has been sus-
pended from oillce for raising black flag
on the occasion Of the Queens Jubilee.
The Fidelity National Bank, of Gin
cinnati, has been Obliged to suspend. The
has taken charge OF Its affairs
Mr.. W. X. Vanderbilt with his yacht
Aiva starts July q for voyage around the
world parry of friends will accompany
him.
The celebration in London last Tues
day, on the occasion OF the Queens Jubi-
lee, was the most Imposing seen for a gen.
Grafton.
The followers OF DR.. McGlynn in
New York have sent n denunciation and
protest TO Rome against ecclesiastical in
in his case.
Mr.. Trenholm, Comptroller of the
Currency. is in personal charge of the
broken Fidelity Bank OF Cincinnati. This
a serious state OF affairs.
The race between the May flower and
GaIatea OF Marhlehead, Massachusetts, was
won by the former. The conditions were
more favorable for tho English cutter.
The Supreme Court has refused to
Sc, aside the verdio, in the famous Maxwell
case a, ST Louis. The probabilities arc
that Maxwell, alias Brooks, will hang.
A fire broke out the other day in
one Of the big mines at Virginia City and
It is feared that fifteen miners who We're
by the flames have pcrished.
A tornado blew down over twenty
eve buildings and killed four people at
Grand Forks, Dakota, and in East Grand
Forks fourteen buildings were destroyed.
The Baldwin and Manchester stage,
fifteen passengers, was held up
In 81, Louis county, Missouri, and fifteen
passcng gers were robbed of SO by three
men.
1t is nearly certain tina, the Car and
Czarine will before long visit Copenhagen
and tha, from there the Gar win 60 TO
NEE. the Emperor William and perhaps the
Emperor Francis Joseph OF Austria.
The women of Great Britain have
raised fI5, 900 with which TO oerect in Wind
sor Palace an equestrian statue OF the
Prince Consort. The Queen will lay the
stone OF the new statue on July
u.
OF the class OF siNty-four young men
who have Just graduated from West Point
but forty can be made second-lieutenants,
and tNcnty-four will have 10 accept CON,
missions as addiionals and hlde their
time.
An earthquake shock. accompanied
by the most prolonged roaring noise that
has been heard since the memorable shak-
ing Of October of last year, startled the
people of Somerville, S. c., Sunday morn
Ing.
Three hundred peers and other prom
inent pcrsonagcs belonging to the Roman
Catholic Church returned tho tickets which
had been sent them emitting them to seats
In Westminster Abbey during the jubilee
services.
Two OF tho workmen on the ore
docks OF the New York, Pennsylvania and
OHIO road at Cleveland were nearly killed
by gang of strikers, and the road was
to haul all of the men out TO the
suburbs for safety.
JEFF Davis says: 1.-The order of the
War Department TO return the cap
turcd flags to the late Confederate States
was In violation of all known military pre-
cedents. These flags were captured by the
volunteer army Of the North and they be-
long to the several States"
President Cleveland has accepted
tho dedication to him of the eulogy on Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher by DR.. Parker OF the
City Temple. In his acceptance the Presi-
dent refers to Mr.. Beccher as "my loved
and honored friend" DR.. Parker viii de-
liver the eulogy In Brooklyn In October
next.